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[[Category:New Reviews|Teens]]__NOTOC__ <!-- Remove -->{{Frontpage|author=Max Boucherat|title=The Last Life of Lori Mills|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=We meet Lori on the first evening she's got the house to herself – no neighbour to pop in, babysitter poorly, mother at work, just an avidly rule-breaking eleven year old, on her lonesome. What could possibly go wrong? Snuggled in a blanket fort, she has one main intention, and that is to log on to Voxminer, the world-building, critter-collecting game that is a hit in Lori's world. But first Lori has a tiny inkling that this stormy night doesn't find herself entirely on her own, and then she finds something even more spooky. For the server she and her bestie and nobody else should be able to enter shows signs of tampering. When malevolent eyes spark up on her phone screen, and her safe place in the game has been doctored – well, where is a girl to turn?|isbn=0008666482__NOTOC__}}{{newreviewFrontpage|author=Samantha MackintoshRachel Greenlaw|title=Kisses for LulaCompass and Blade

|summary=Girls do worry''I can hear the song of the sea. The call of the deep, the answering beat in my heart.'' Rosevear, about all sorts of thingsa remote and partially forgotten island, survives on luring ships into the rocks and plundering the wrecks. And Mira, like her mother before her, is one of the things they enjoy worrying about most is whether or not seven who swim out to survey the ruins – rescuing any survivors and any treasure that lies within. But when the Council Watch lays a trap to end the wrecking, they are passing capture the milestones on lifeisland's leader and Mira's journey at the same time father. Desperate to save him from death, Mira makes a bargain with a wreck survivor who is as charming as everyone else. The fact that they combine this he is secretive and with loud demands only coordinates to be treated to be an individual is guide her, she sets off in search of a major reason for stress-related hair-loss and gibbering family secret that lies buried deep in parentsthe sea. Lula is no exception here. Her sixteenth birthday is approaching fastWith only nine days to unearth what might save her father, and unless she gets kissed before then (by pretty well anyone: sheas her journey takes her from the watched streets of foreign islands to the heart of the smuggler's desperate) territory, Mira must be determined to stop at nothing to save the future of her home and the ones she is convinced she will be jinxed for lifeholds most dear.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405249625</amazonuk>0008664730

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Kevin BrooksHarry Allen|title=iBoyChildren of the Sun

|summary=Tom Harvey Ra Eun Seo lives in a North Korean town and she is wandering along after school on his way to meet up with his friend Lucy when he hears his name called from up high in one of the tower blocks on his estatea talented singer. He doesn't have time Life is hard and food is difficult to look up before everything goes up. Waking up in hospital days latercome by, Tom discovers he has fragments of a shattered iPhone embedded in his brain. And still worseso Seo and her friends Nari and Min go foraging every evening, his friend Lucy has been gang-raped in a brutal attack that Tom had been so closed looking for tree bark and edible grasses to walking in onsupplement the meagre rations of rice and kimchi at home. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141326107</amazonuk>1805140493

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Daniel WatersAlexia Casale|title=Passing Strange (Generation Dead)|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Karen DeSonne, the sexiest zombie amongst the many differently biotic teenagers in Oakvale, gets a turn at centre stage in the latest in Daniel Waters's ''Generation Dead'' series. Karen has always worn a disguise. When she was alive, her various camouflages hid the crippling depression that engulfed her so often and eventually led to her suicide. Now sheSing if you Can's dead, make up, hair dye and blue contact lenses enable her to "pass" as a living girl. She talks fluently and her movements are fluid, unlike most of her differently biotic peers, whose pauses, stutters and jerky movements mark them out for all to see. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1847389600</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Keith Gray|title=Losing Itt Dance

|summary=Doing it for the first time... It's hard enough to navigate your teenage years without suddenly finding that you know, ''Losing'' It. It. Sex. They talk about it re having to navigate a lotlife-changing disability too, teenagers. And eventually, they do it. But when but that's what Ven is the right time? Where is the right place? Who is the right person? Is everyone else doing it already? Will they be cheap if they do it too? Or will they be left behind dealing with after collapsing on stage in the peripheries middle of all a dance performance that was going to change her life. But she comes back fighting, desperate to avoid the pity stares, and desperate to get back to a life that's important in life? And as normal as she can possibly manage. Meanwhile there's so much eagerness a new (cute!) boy in teenagers - not just for sexschool, but for everything. They sure do hate her music A Level performance piece to try to wait. But sometimessort out, it's better and just the day to wait. The trick for day traumas of all the poor things, I suppose, is knowing when exactly challenges her body continues to throw at her to stop waitingnavigate. And when you So even though she can've never done itt dance anymore, how on earth can you possibly know thatmight she be able to sing her way through instead?! Stepping into the breach come eight of my favourite writers in today's teen market, each with a story about virginity. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1849390991</amazonuk>0571373801

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Cathy HopkinsSimon Fox|title=Million Dollar MatesDeadlock|rating=4.5|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=It's nine months since Jess Hall's mother died Late one night Graham Blake is late back from his shift on the force, and she's still finding it difficult to come to terms with what's happenedthen suddenly rings Archie, demanding he fetch something from a secret place, and join him on the run. She and her brother Charlie have been living with Gran They get together, but all that's about barely begin to change. Jess' Dad has got smell the job whiff of general manager at Number 1Southern trains when the father is arrested, Porchester Park. These apartments are not just up-market they're where leaving Archie on the A-listers live and after some initial reluctance about leaving Gran Jess is excited. There's an Olympic-size pool where she can swim and both she and Charlie will be able late express to Brighton, toting a tin his father was determined to have their own rooms in the house that goes with the job. Everyone at school envies here keep away from his colleagues, and it looks as though she's living the dreambearer of a whole heap of questions.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847387578</amazonuk>1839944420

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sherrilyn KenyonLex Croucher|title=InfinityGwen and Art Are Not in Love

|summary=Nick GautierWho knew that what I really needed to read right now was a gay Arthurian RomCom? But honestly, scholarship kid teased for his poverty it lifted my spirits in a most delightful way. In this story, Gwen and his motherArthur have been betrothed since they were tiny, much to their mutual disgust! Gwen, you see, is in love with Bridget (the kingdom's job as a stripper, finds life hard enough even before three of his friends try to kill him when he stops them only female knight) - something that Art discovers from mugging an elderly coupleher private diaries. But And then when Gwen then catches Art kissing a boy they find themselves becoming reluctant allies, creating the man who rescues him turns out to mix subterfuge of falling in seriously weird circleslove with each other, things get when really bizarrethey are enabling their own other romantic attachments. If anything But as their impending wedding draws ever closer, really bizarre is will they find a massive understatement. Nick goes on way in which they can both truly be themselves, or are they destined to meet demons, zombies, shape changers, and live a host of other mysterious beings, many of whom he already knew in human form as his schoolmates. He ends up on the frontline of a battle against zombies who are running riot in his home of New Orleans.lie their whole lives?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>190741021X</amazonuk>1526651793

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah Rees BrennanNick Brooks|title=The Demon's CovenantPromise Boys

|summary=A few weeks after When the events principal (headmaster) of [[The Demon's Lexicon by Sarah Rees Brennan|The Demon's Lexicon]] and Mae Urban Promise Prep school is finally ungrounded. Determined to get on with 'normal' life and forget the magic she's lost since brothers Nick and Alan Ryves leftmurdered, Mae is only interested in hitting three boys find themselves called into the town and meeting up with Sebpolice station as suspects. Nice Each, seemingly, normal Seb.Then Mae learns her brother Jamie has a grudge of some description against Principal Moore, and each could have been secretly meeting up with Gerald, there at the new leader time of the Obsidian Circlehis murder. Afraid that Jamie is getting involved in dangerous things But who killed him, and why, Mae does and if any of the only thing she can and calls Alan.boys are innocent, will they be able to clear their names?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1847382908</amazonuk>1035003155

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Jane Smiley1919635017|title=Nobody's Horse|rating=5|genre=Confident Readers|summary=Abby lives on her family's farm in California. They specialise in taking horses and ponies which are not at their peak and bringing them on so that they can be sold at a profit. Abby's father is determined that she won't get attached to any of the horses, because that only increases the pain when they inevitably go, but two are going to make an impact on her that she could not have expected. The first is a foal whose dam dies when he's a matter of weeks old and he takes Abby's heart. The second has the opposite effect because every time that Abby rides him he's determined A Thief to buck her off. She's frightened of him and it's Catch a tribute to Abby that the worst she calls him is Grumpy George.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0571253547</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewKiller|author=Kimberly Greene|title=My Life on TV|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Sam’s sister, Danni, is a pop star and her mother is Danni’s manager. Dad died before Sam was born, so between the three of them life is quite fraught, particularly as they’re the subject of a reality show which is planned to run for three years. If they manage the full three years the house they live in will belong to their mother, but it all looks to be in jeopardy when Danni decides that she can’t take the pop star life any longer and she’s going to hang up her microphone. Sam’s scared that this will mean they have to leave the house and go back to the days when they had to struggle to pay the rent. There might be a way round it though – what if she was to become a TV star and the reality show could continue?|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1409508293</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Holly Black|title=The White Cat (Curse Workers, Book 1)Kitt Townsend

|summary=Cassel Sharpe dreams of Solomon Klyne isn't a white cat and wakes up on the roof of his school buildingbad lad, perilously close to so why is he running around London committing a fatal fall. Afraid that series of robberies? And how did helearn to crack safes? You's suicidal or otherwise unstable, his principal sends him home, while ll have to wait to get an answer to the school decides whether or not he can stay on as a pupilsecond question because I avoid spoilers. This is completely devastating But I'll answer the first one: for Cassel, who is struggling with some major issueshis grandmother. For starters, he's only non-worker in a family of workers. His gloved hands cover useless fingers. His touch doesn't manipulate emotions, remove memories, bring luck, or kill, maim or otherwise injure. Even in a world where working is illegal, it's hard to be the only normal person in your family|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0575096713</amazonuk>

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Melvin BurgessPatrick Ness and Tea Bendix|title=Nicholas DaneDifferent for Boys

|genre=Teens|summary=14-year-old Nicholas Dane Ant is taken into care after his mother, in Year Eleven at quite a secret smack headstandard school, dies in an accidental overdose. Meadow Hill and is surprised to find his geography class (within which it seems absolutely nothing about geography is an assessment centreever learnt) has been restructured, but so his desk is one of four with both his best buddy from the truth is that not much genuine assessment is going on. It's a savagefootball team, brutal regime and Nicholas fights against it from the starttwo other old muckers – in fact they all go back to primary school days together. Eventually, he As they's taken under the wing of Tony Crealre all fired up, straining at the deputy headleash only a single-sex school can form, and the only person talk in the place who appears class and out often turns to have a shred of common humanitysex... ... or so Nick thinks. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141316330</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Nick Hale|title=Sudden Death (Striker)|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Jake Bastin Which is confusing for Ant, son of famous former footballer Steveas he doesn't know what his score is, thought where his life was difficult enough even before his father enters negotiations to join St Petersburg’s newest football team as managerachievements in that regard lie. But when the agent his dad’s discussing the move with collapses of He's had a casual relationship, a suspected heart attacksecret one, things get far more complicated – because Jake is convinced he was actually poisonedfor several months now, and can’t understand why his dad seems happy to go along with a cover so has effectively progressed up. As the pair move to St Petersburgladder headed by 'experienced', the bodies start piling upbut whether that's set in stone, and Jake goes from having to fight to control his temper, to fight to save his lifehe can't be sure. With no way And that's mostly because of knowing if who he can trust anyone, even his own father, can 's been having the relationship and the youngster stand up to criminals who are happy to kill to get what they want?sex with.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405249501</amazonuk>1529509491

 {{newreviewFrontpage|authorisbn=Dominic Barker1800901232|title=Adam and the ArkonautsStitched Up|author=Steve Cole

|genre=Confident ReadersDyslexia Friendly|summary=Adam is on Twelve-year-old Hanh wanted to be a missionfashion designer. Both he and his father have spent Life in the decade since his mother rural village where she lived with her family was kidnapped by an Evil Scientist looking for herhappy, if not prosperous, and perfecting their own skills. They might have got so when the best clue of all so far smartly- one that has led them to the mysterious, hidden, and downright alarming city of Buenos Suenos. Those skills? Being able to communicate with animals. Since learning to gibber like a spider monkey they can both bark, purr perfectly, dressed man and more. It will take the extraordinary menagerie woman came to survive the unusual city, and try and discover what happened village to Adam's mum - and what the Evil Scientist might want by holding her hostage for the same skills in return.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>140880025X</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Mary Hooper|title=Fallen Grace|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Grace Parkes is not yet sixteen when she loses her baby. Worse still, it is 1861, and Grace is unmarried. To have a baby out of wedlock is a shameful thing for offer Hahn a girl job in Victorian times, even if Hanoi it is was an opportunity not by her own choice, and Grace has to cope all alone with the shame of her condition be missed. Some money changed hands and Hanh was on the loss of her child, not mini-bus to mention a sister who needs constant care and their increasing povertyHanoi. But ''Fallen Grace'' is not some nineteenth century version of the misery memoir: Grace has resourcefulness and determination as well as beauty Only, Hanh and her story moves at a gripping pace.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0747599130</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Carrie Ryan|title=The Dead-Tossed Waves|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Gabry has lived her whole life behind the safety of the Barrier, other girls were not going to work in the seaside town of Vista. She isn't keen to venture past ita shop, they were to explore the remains of work in virtual slavery in an old amusement park, but Gabry is drawn by illegal garment factory. You know those jeans you really wanted: the allure of Catcher, her best friend Cira's brother. Cira ones with intricate embroidery and beading on the others are sure they will be safe from the Mudo – the shambling undead that plague legs? The ones with the world Gabry lives in. Gabry decides to risk it, and her whole world is turned upside down.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0575090898</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=David Gatward|title=The Dead (The Dark)|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Lazarus Stone is home alone artfully- his father's away on business placed rips and his mother died in a car crash distressed seams that felt so soft when he was just baby. Heyou touched them? It's lazing around, chatting on the phone with his best mate Craig, when a foul smell begins to suffuse the house. Tracking it to the lounge, he opens the door quite possible that Hanh and discovers a skinless figure drenched in blood. Not a corpse her co- Red has crossed over from the other side with a message for Lazarus's father... Hell is full and the Dead are comingworkers made them. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>0340999691</amazonuk>

 {{newreview|author=Anna Kendall|title=Crossing Over|rating=3|genre=Teens|summary=Roger can cross over into the Country of the Dead. To be able to do this he must be in pain, something his abusive Uncle, Hartah, takes full advantage of. So they travel, Hartah, Roger and his Aunt Jo, from faire to faire making money from Roger’s talents and exploiting the grieving. Until, Hartah, takes them to the sea. It is there that Roger gets dragged into helping Hartah and others wreck the Frances Ormund, a navy ship carrying precious cargo back to the Queendom.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0575094257</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Jackson Pearce|title=Sisters Red|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Scarlett March lives to hunt the Fenris - the werewolves that took her eye and savaged her body during a brutal attack when she was just a young girl. Scarlett managed to save her sister Rosie, but Grandma Oma died horrifically. Scarlett's body is marked by scar after scar and the scars never let her forget. She lives and breathes the hunt, killing Fenris after Fenris and saving teenaged girl after teenaged girl. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1444900587</amazonuk>}} {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Andrew LanePatrice Lawrence|title=Young Sherlock Holmes: Death CloudNeedle

|summary=With his father overseas in the British ArmyBrave. Charlene, his mother unwell, and older brother Mycroft busy working for the government, young Sherlock Holmes 'heroine' of this piece is forced extremely hard for some people to spend his school holidays with his unknown uncle like, characters and auntreaders both. Looking forward to days Kicked out of doing whatever he wantsmultiple homes and schools, especially after meeting urchin Matty Arnatt, heshe's initially displeased when Mycroft hires him an American tutor – but the fostering with a pleasant yoga tutor, Amyus CroweAnnie, and his daughter Victoria end has taken up teaming up with Sherlock to solve the mysterious deaths residence in her son Blake's old room while he's at uni. Such a tempestuous personality may be in need of two local mena comfort blanket, and uncover a plot which could have far-reaching consequences…|amazonuk=<amazonuk>033051198X</amazonuk>}}  {{newreview|author=Isobelle Carmody|title=Obernewtyn (Obernewtyn Chronicles)|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=A nuclear catastrophe called the Great White destroyed most of the worldyou might perhaps think, and only those who lived in isolated parts of the countryside were able to survive by refusing all contact with radiation-infected refugees from the urban centres. In time the cities grew again, but the fear creation of outsiders and of those who were different remained and became a religion, composed in one such item is part of half-remembered elements of faiths from the time before the apocalypse.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408806975</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Chloe Neill|title=Firespell: The Dark Elite|rating=5|genre=Teens|summary=Lily Parker plot here, as Charlene is sent to boarding school in Chicago when her parents get the opportunity to do some prestigious research work in Germany. She was expecting bitchy classmatesa wonder knitter, and she gets them – but she wasn’t prepared for her suitemate, Scout, who stays out late at night and reappears covered in bruises, a school is making something full of secret hiding places, a principal who knows love for her parents and seems to have an entirely wrong idea about their work younger sister – or a mysterious group of supernatural teens called the Dark Eliteyounger sister she's allowed contact with no more.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0575095393</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Louis Sachar|title=The Cardturner|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=''How are we supposed to be partners? He can’t We see the cards and I don’t know the rules!'' 17-year-old Alton Richards is shoehorned into becoming the driver and cardturner for his blind, octogenarian, bridge-playing, but above all rich, uncle by his grasping parents - who are up to their eyeballs in debt and have a weather eye on potential legacies. Alton sighs but goes along Charlene prove her belligerence with it. He's used to being told to call Lester Trapp his favourite uncle and he's used to his unrepentently mercenary parents. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408808501</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Bonnie Hearn Hill|title=Star Crossed: Taurus Eyes|rating=4|genre=Teens|summary=Logan McRae is excited by the prospect of attending a writers' camp hosted by author Henry Jaffastore detective, who starts off by asking them all to write a project idea and then shuffles them around. Instead of force people to give her longed-for astrology featuretwo days off school, Logan ends up having to write about folk singer Sean Baylorwhen she shouts someone down as expletively ignorant. And then... well, whose ghost may be haunting thelocality. The only person who doesn't have to switch what exactly happens is the cute boy at the camp, Jeremy, who Jaffa allows not for me to keep his original topic – of Sean Baylor. Sosay, Logan and Jeremy end up fighting over research material while also clearly wanting only to get to know each other better – does the ghost exist? Will they get it together? Who will write the best article remark how sharp and get it published? The answers to all these questionsand more lie inside the second book in the Star Crossed series (along with some temporary tattoos!)pointy those knitting needles can be...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0762436719</amazonuk>1800901011

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Catherine FordeAnn Sei Lin|title=Fifteen Minute BobRebel Skies|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=For yearsKurara has spent her entire life as a servant on the Midori, conscientious student Rory a massive dining hall floating in the sky where soldiers of the Empire come to drink and his hard-working mother have struggled to cope with his fathermake merry between their conquests. However, an eyeliner wearing struggling singer-songwriter unable when a man named Himura arrives to hold down tell her that she is a jobCrafter like him, and obsessed someone with the power to form paper into whatever she desires – a star called Bob Bladepower sought after all across the Empire. While Rory finds hisfather's unreliability a nightmare He asks her to live come withhim, his two friends Smiler and Barry think heto leave the life of dreary servitude that is all she has known. Well, soon Kurara won's cool t have any say in the matter, because the Midori is destroyed by a monstrous paper spirit known as a shikigami, and spend more time hanging she is forced to flee out with him than with Roryinto the world. As She joins Himura aboard the trio of SmilerOrihime, Barrya sky-ship whose express purpose is to hunt down shikigami, and Rory's dad team up to make a music video that goes viral on the internet, Rory gets unwittingly involved and, in the words whole world of the blurb from the back,'everything flips'.adventure awaits her…|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1405229306</amazonuk>1406399590

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Richard DenningMarcus Sedgwick|title=The Last SealWrath

|summary=In 1380 the warlock Stephen Blake released the demon Dantalion from the AbyssMeet Fitz, a young Scottish lad full of frustration at himself. Lockdown is only for just over, and he should be free to do what he wants, to go where he wants and with whom he wants, but he cannot stop himself from putting his nemesis Cornelius Silver foot in it when he talks to banish him straight away. Dantalion has nursed his wounds for nearly 300 years – and in 1666best friend, descendants Cassie. They were half of a desultory school band, but Cassie was also one hundred per cent the original pair clash as heaims to return to enigmatic – saying she could hear a subhuman hum coming from the world, and burn down London by starting the Great Fireearth. While Is this connected with one of her eco-warrior parents saying the fire rages around London, and Dantalion’s followers try to break end of the seals which hold him in world is already a done deal? Is it some spooky new kind of music she's dreaming of? Is she just bonkers? And can Fitz find out the Abysstruth? Well, four unlikely heroes join forces to stop them from being destroyed – and to save the worldnot when Cassie has gone missing he can't...|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0956483550</amazonuk>1800900899

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Nicola MorganTori Bovalino|title=WastedThe Devil Makes Three

|summary=Jess wants to study music. SheWorking all summer in her boarding school's a wonderful singer. And so a chance encounter with Jack, who needs a singer for his band, library is exactly the happenstance last thing Tess Matheson wants to do — especially when she'd hoped gets a request for. Even better over a hundred books that Jack is so charming and handsome and charismatic. And still better that he feels the same attraction she has to herdeliver herself. How lucky can a girl get? Jack believes in luck. In fact, he lives his life by What makes itworse is the man who requested the books: Mr Birch. He doesnThe boarding school't do s headmaster, and a thing unless his coin says he canman Tess hates. Newly in love, Jess is slowly drawn into his game As a petty act of chance. Although it worries revenge for making her find and deliver such a littlelarge request, Tess sticks post-it notes on each of the books, scribbled with the ugliest insults she canthink of. They't know that a time will come when the toss re never meant to reach him, of a coin course. Her plan is the difference between life to get her anger out like this, and deaththen take them all off before delivering them. No harm done… Or it would be, if someone hadn't delivered them for her. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406321958</amazonuk>1789098130

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Patrick NessPhilip Reeve|title=Monsters Utterly Dark and the Face of Men (Chaos Walking)the Deep

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Noise - visible thought - dominates the lives of everyone on this settler planetIn a word, rich. Noise There is used as a tool certainly an abundance of oppression and as riches in this story set on a weaponpeculiar island called Wildsea, British but way west, beyond the Scillies. There's a cureare troll people on it, and sea-witches, but and legends of the Machiavellian President Prentiss reserves it only Dark family that has to keep watch for the most loyalmagical islands and their monster approaching from even further west, where no ship dare sail. The Answer current Darks are fighting back against his authoritarian regimethe Watcher, Andrewe, but they've had who has to make some terrible choices. Between keep notes of activity from the President's torture Hidden Lands, his brother Will who lives in London with too much science in his head to worry about such local yokel superstitions, and the AnswerAndrewe's terrorist bomb attacks stand Todd and Viola - trying to prevent civil warfoundling daughter, trying to hold on long enough for who washed up out of the second wave of settlers to arrivesea one day eleven years ago. And thenBut when Andrewe Dark drowns himself, in both his sullen brother and his curious ward are thrust into the wake world of the President's genocide of slavesprotecting their island, the Spackle attack. A scout ship finally arrives, but like it may be too late to prevent a catastrophic war..or not. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1406310271</amazonuk>1788452372

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Keris StaintonKiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de Freston|title=Della Says: OMG! Julia and the Shark

|genre=TeensConfident Readers|summary=Ever since she was fourJulia, our pre-teen heroine, Della has had a secret crush on Dan, the good-looking and gentle boy who once shared his brand new crayons been packed off with her. And now, more than ten years later, he wants to kiss her. It seems too good parents and their cat from the family home in SW England to be true, and lighthousekeepers for a while Della fears the whole thing is a joke, set up by mean girl Gemima. After allsummer, Gemima is Dan's best friend. And then disaster strikes: Della's very private and confidential diary goes missing. The diary with all in the excruciatingly embarrassing entries about Dan, her family, her friends...|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1408304279</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Lara Fox|title=Miss Understanding: My Summer on far NE of the Shelf|rating=4Scottish islands.5|genre=Teens|summary=Anya Buxton is back Here be Vikings, that kind of Scottish island. It's the summer holidays and her mum Dad is keen for her going to find a summer job rather than waste her days lounging around at home. After be automating the brieflantern, worrying possibility that she might just end up as a newspaper delivery girl she lands a dream position gaining work experience with a London publishing house. She finds herself simultaneously editing a dishywhich is his specialist thing, though slightly disturbed teen author, struggling with a long distance relationship with Al, wondering if 'The Boy' really has turned over a new leaf and being wooed by while mum will be leaving her career in algae behind to hunt the boss's sonelusive Greenland shark. AndJulia, of coursewell, she's blogging it all for her dedicated followerswill be homesick and alone – until she suddenly finds company one night.|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0340988835</amazonuk>1510107789

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Jenna BurtenshawJonathan Stroud|title=WintercraftThe Outlaws Scarlett and Browne|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=The wardens raid villages Scarlett McCain is an outlaw, rejecting the draconian conformity of the Surviving Towns and cities for people competent Faith Houses to fight in wander the wildlands between the warSeven Kingdoms of Britain, a war nobody knows anything about robbing banks and shooting other than if you’re sent outlaws to fight you don’t come backkeep herself alive. The last time they raided Morvane was ten years agoBut then she meets Albert Browne, taking Kate’s parents a dark boy with dark powers and a darker past. With mysterious militiamen hunting themdown, they plan to flee to the mythical Free Isles of the London Lagoon. Kate is taken in by her uncleTogether, Artemisthey must brave man-eating wildlife, the cannibalistic Tainted and grows up in all the book shop with him and her friend, Edgar. But now horrors of post-apocalyptic society to reach the wardens are backFree Isles, and looking for but will they be any more people to fight. However, accepted there than they are also looking for the Skilled – a dying breed of people who can see through in the veil rest of life and death. They want to build an army of the dead.Britain?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0755370961</amazonuk>1406394815

  {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Sarah DessenMercedes Helnwein|title=Infinity (Pocket Money Puffins)Slingshot|rating=3.5|genre=Teens|summary=Girl is a teen from small town America. We don't know where exactly, but it's somewhere people drive (which rules out the likes of NYC) and it's somewhere that has a roundabout. Most of America doesn't have these – instead they have much more sensible crossings and lights and T-junctions – so it's a source of intrigue for many of the town's residents. For new driver Girl the roundabout is joint top on her List Of Things To Master, along with sleeping with her boyfriend Anthony. They might seem entirely unrelated to the likes of you and me, but to Girl the links are clear. They're both things she will have to deal with for a first time eventually, but she still can't decide whether to rush ahead in order to get them out of the way quickly, or put them off for just a little longer.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141330775</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Meg Rosoff|title=Vamoose (Pocket Money Puffins)|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=There are lots of reasons not to become a teen mum while still at school – there’s your loss of freedom, for a start, plus the fact that babies spend their days crying and pooing, not to mention the fact they’re expensive. But what happens to Jess is something that no one has warned her about: she goes into hospital and gives birth to a bouncing baby moose. Which is, it has to be said, slightly odd. As she and boyfriend Nick struggle through first-time parenthood and learn to deal with the Unique Challenge of having a non-homo-sapien child, there’s a lesson for all of us about biting off more than we can chew and unpredictable consequences.|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0141329149</amazonuk>}} {{newreview|author=Nancy Werlin|title=Impossible|rating=4

|summary=Life is just as it should be for Lucy ScarboroughGracie Welles has resigned herself to being lonely. She lives As a secret illegitimate daughter of a man with loving foster parents and at seventeen a "real" family, she is looking forward used to attending prom not being a priority in people's lives. But when she defends a random boy in her class with her friends and slingshot, her date, who has definite boyfriend potentialsimple existence is changed for good. The only fly No longer can she spend her time writing novels in the ointment is Miranda Scarboroughsolitude, Lucy's birth mother who, having given birth to Lucy at eighteen, promptly went mad and vanished from Lucy's life leaving for her in the care of Leo and Soledad MarKowitz. Lucy's life now has been plagued by unwanted visits from Miranda who seems determined to cause as much embarrassment as possiblea boy in it that she never asked for: Wade Scholfield. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0141330309</amazonuk>152905818X

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=Carlos Ruiz ZafonT L Huchu|title=The Prince Library of Mistthe Dead|rating=4.5|genre=Confident ReadersTeens|summary=During World War TwoRopa Moyo is a ghostalker, Max's father decides to move the whole family to using Zimbabwean magic (and a seaside retreat he knows bit of - a wooden house far away Scottish pragmatism) to take messages from the city he's grown his family up indead of Edinburgh for their living relatives. Nobody seems too keen on the ideaEver since she dropped out of school, neither of Maxshe's sistersbeen using it to support not only herself, his mother, nor he - but her younger sister and Max is gifted a pocket watch by his lovingher aging grandmother. However, talented mechanic cum engineer cum watchmaker there's an evil stalking the ruined streets of a fatherEdinburgh, enscribed as "Maxtargeting the city's Time Machine"children. But Soon, Ropa is pulled into the house they move to, and its surroundings, are full of more successful time machines - search for a stash missing boy at the request of early home videos, a public clock his dead mother. She will end up discovering an occult library and realise that runs backwards, a sunken shipwreck, a yard full the world of statues of a stone circusmagic is far bigger and more dangerous than she ever could've imagined... And let's not forget Will she find the mysteriousmissing children and bring an end to this evil, spider-eating cat that joins in with proceedings.or will it claim her too?|amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>0297856421</amazonuk>1529039452

 {{newreviewFrontpage|author=James RollinsKristen O'Neal|title=Jake Ransom Lycanthropy and the Skull King's ShadowOther Chronic Illnesses

|summary=Cess is Having recently been diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease, Priya has to come to terms with the fact that she may be in constant pain for the poultry girl at Montacute Houserest of her life. She and her mother live alone - Cess has never met her father. In factjoins ''Oof Ouch My Bones'', an online support group where she doesn't even know who he istalks to a bunch of other teens living with chronic illnesses. Shunned by the They talk about their troubles and help each other villagers because out, while also providing an escape to just joke and mess around. When Brigid—one of her illegitimacyclosest friends—doesn't respond to the chat for a while, Cess has only two friends, both also social outcastsPriya becomes concerned. ThereShe decides to steal her parents' car and drive to Brigid's William, who has house to check up on her. But what she doesn't expect to find there is a club foot - thought of as a curse werewolf in Elizabethan England, the basement – and Edith, who's for that werewolf to be the girl she has been chased out of the village talking to online for witchery by the woman-hating local priestpast few months. |amazonukisbn=<amazonuk>1408803763</amazonuk>1683692349

{{newreview|author=Gregory Hughes|title=Unhooking the Moon|rating=4.5|genre=Teens|summary=The Rat and Bob are prairie children. Winnipeg is a land ''so flat you can watch your dog run away for three days''. When their father dies and they're orphaned, they are determined to avoid a children's home at all costs and embark upon a road trip to New York City, in search of their long-lost uncle. Bob is pretty much the hanger-Move on - he knows that the Rat is a special kid who would never make it in an institution and so he puts his fears aside to follow his singular sister. |amazonuk=<amazonuk>1849162956</amazonuk>}}[[Newest Thrillers Reviews]]